Sartaj Aziz

Sartaj Aziz (7 February 1929-) was Minister of Finance of Pakistan from 7 August 1990 to 18 April 1993, succeeding Benazir Bhutto and preceding Farooq Leghari; from 26 May to 18 July 1993, succeeding Farooq Leghari and preceding Syed Babar Ali; and from 25 February 1997 to 6 August 1998, succeeding Mahmud Ali Durrani and preceding Naseer Khan Janjua. He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs from 7 June 2013, succeeding Hina Rabbani Khar.

Biography
Sartaj Aziz was born on 7 February 1929 in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns. He was a young activist in the Muslim League before gaining an economics degree and working with the economic bureau of the Planning Commission after 1964. Aziz opposed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's nationalization and socialism, and he joined Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's government. During the 1990s, he served as Minister of Finance three times, and on 7 June 2013 he became Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs (Minister of Foreign Affairs) under Nawaz Sharif, and on 3 March 2016 he made a stunning revelation when he confessed that the top leadership of the Taliban in Afghanistan had been granted refuge in Pakistan.